Chronic Pain

How do Infusions Help Chronic Pain?

Chronic pain, including fibromyalgia and CRPS, can arise from diverse triggers, both internal and external. Some patients may have an underlying genetic susceptibility. Other patients may have medical conditions that exacerbate their addictions and obsessions:

1. Genetic susceptibility to pain
2. Concomitant depression and anxiety that may decrease the pain threshold
3. Medical conditions that cause or exacerbate chronic pain (eg arthritis, herniated disks, substance use disorder)
4. Environmental triggers (death, separation, personal or financial hardship, etc.) can cause or worsen pain
5. Medications can influence addiction susceptibility, such as opioid or benzodiazepine (eg Xanax) use

Some patients may not be able to control their chronic pain with medications and psychotherapy. Ketamine infusions and medication assisted psychotherapy offer a breakthrough treatment for treatment resistant chronic pain and its debilitating health consequences.

Complications from chronic pain are high with traditional treatments

Chronic pain has been treated with opioid pain medications for decades. While appropriate in some circumstances, the rates of prescription have contributed to the opioid epidemic. Opioid-based chronic pain treatments plans can be dangerous, particularly in susceptible populations.

Chronic pain can be a consequences of cognitive rigidity

Cognitive rigidity underlies many psychiatric conditions and personality traits, including compulsivity (OCD), eating disorders, and trichotillomania. It's not an unwillingness to change, but it's a neurochemical inertia that can make changing habits and routines incredibly difficult. Ketamine and medication assisted hypnotherapy can help restructure rigid cognitive loops through neuroplasticity - literally helping re-wire rigid neurological habit loops.

Ketamine modifies glutamate levels, enhancing neurogenesis

Glutamate is a powerful neurotransmitter involved in synaptogenesis, or the formation of new neural connections. Forming new neural connections may help relieve chronic pain, particularly fibromyalgia. Ketamine modulates glutamate levels and NMDA receptor activity to fundamentally alter our response to triggering stimuli.

While chronic pain has many causes, there are underlying biochemical and psychological disturbances that limit your ability to regulate pain perception and sensitivity, even when we fully recognize their destructive effects.

The powerful action of ketamine on NMDA receptors are believed to modulate its pain-relieving effects. Furthermore, these NMDA and glutamate receptor antagonistic effects can particularly enhance chronic pain treatment in patients suffering from both depression and addiction. This can re-shift the biochemical balance in your brain to help restore your inner healing potential. Traditional chronic pain treatments simply don't have this same effect.

Safety of ketamine and clinical hypnosis treatments

Unlike traditional anti-anxiety medications, in particular benzodiazepines like Xanax, our infusion treatments are very safe.

By reducing the need for traditional medications, many risks can be reduced, including risks of opioid addiction, benzodiazepine addiction and possibly cognitive decline from untreated chronic pain.

Infusions allow for faster action

Unlike oral dosing, IV infusion rates can be modified instantaneously to allow for more rapid therapeutic effect. There is no need to wait for the effect of a pill to decide if the next pill dose should be changed a week later.